Re: Continued development of XMLPull

Dennis Sosnoski wrote:

>How much interest is there in continued development of XMLPull? 
>
it works extremely well for me especially in context of 
XmlInfosetBuilder (XB1) API i use recently

>I know 
>that StAX was supposed to basically take over, but it looks like a 
>kludge in many respects. I'd personally prefer to see XMLPull continue, 
>and would be willing to work on getting the XML support to the required 
>level for full compliance (right now the main problem that I'm aware of 
>is entity handling; I think this can be done by layering, though it 
>might take some tweaks to the API).
>  
>
entity handling .... hmm it comes back like boomerang. this and few 
other small issues (generally DTD handling and following XML 1.0 rules 
for allowed chars in names) are thing i have always in mind to do "some 
day in future":
http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=xpp3-java

>I'd think an XMLPull 2 API that made use of the CharSequence approach 
>(not only for getText(), but also for things like attribute values) 
>would be a great next step. 
>
i think this can be done first as an addon and maybe have this permanent 
and required part of API when hitting XmlPull2

>I'd also love to see an XML processing API 
>that actually showed some sense in the use of names and namespaces 
>(using QName and Namespace objects, rather than the damned text strings 
>that everybody has to process and reprocess). 
>
:) i came to the same conclusion in XB1 though i only use XmlNamespace 
(it can have prefix though)

>I'd expect that an API of 
>this type would be faster than the current low-level API while also 
>reducing overhead for the applications that build on top of the parser.
>
>  
>
agreed.

i see no problem in using XPP3 (or XPP4) as a vehicle to test such 
ideas. i am also toying with an idea if taking back modifications to 
XPP3 that happened in StAX RI (it is based on XPP3) and merge them back 
to XPP4 codebase so it would implement both XmlPull and StAX ...

what you think?

thanks,

alek

-- 
The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Alan Kay



 
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